Poster Project

In my advanced illustration class, we are making posters that illustrate haikus from local poets.
It's actually exciting because we've done so many "childrens book-esque" & editorial assignments that something simple as a poster is novel. I remember hating my design classes in freshman year and wanting to touch hardcore, messy, dramatic oil paints. But jumping back and forth to different techniques and medias is fun. It brings a different dynamic to each assignment. Plus, the poster project is actually a contest so for I'm sure it'll bring little edge and competitiveness out of all of us.

This is the website for the poster project. If you want to see the past student posters, check it out!
http://www.posterproject.org/

This is something else I found for fun while brainstorming for my poster.
I love threadless.



It's hard to read but it says:

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator




They rarely do make sense.


piece and blessins`
-g

Deb's in Town

There have been many debbie downing moments today:

1. The Illustrators stayed up last night, finishing our "animal musician" assignment for our 9 am studio this morning. This morning many of us showed up to class groggy and half awake, to find out that class was cancelled. I shouldn't complain too much since I completed mine earlier than others and got some good nights rest. However.... I went nut-so this morning because my bus from South Campus never show up and I knew I was going to be late. So yes, we all went crazy over a cancelled class. Wah wah :/

2. The reason why my professor, Roger DeMuth is out is because he the caught the flu. Wah wah:/

3. He's probably going to blame it on one of us. :\

4. Though he didn't show up to class, somehow he managed to drop off our assignment before we left. Damn it Roger! :/

5. Roger keeps telling us that we're doomed.

6. Our Business to Freelance professor actually means it. :\

7. It's super humid & hot. :\

8. One of the greatest things about the new University Village apartments is that it comes with a Laundry Washer & Drier in every apartment. And because it's free, my roommate and I have been allowing many of our friends to come over and do laundry. It only takes one idiot with an ultra heavy load to break our machines :\

9. It also takes only one can of pringles to break the vending machine. :\

10. Remember how I went crazy about John Legend on my last blog? Well apparently, he is not really here to sing but here to talk. It's not really a bad thing because the content of his speech (?) is rather important. I believe he collaborated with NAACP and is here to talk about poverty in Africa and how philanthrophic and humanitarian events can be effective. I guess I had different expectations and they aren't really being met. That's okay. I'll choose a lecture from John over a professor any day. Which leads me to my theory that there is a direct relationship between the good looking professors and good grades. Yes they do correlate but we'll talk about that another time.


Okay all those 10 things up there is a big joke. I walked into the office about an hour ago and told everyone that I've been having a great day. I'm thankful that my class was cancelled because I got to grab breakfast and sleep. A hot day in syracuse means another day in shorts and one less day in a parka. I just enjoy being cynical and acting like my life sucks when in reality, it's pretty amazing. I think it lightens the minor gliches in life.




Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh kay... it is pouring and I left my umbrella in Shaffer. fijsY&*#RFIHATEMYLIFEEE!

MUSIK MUSIQ MUSIC

I may have blogged about this before but I love the performing artists that University Union invites to our school every year. Last Sunday we had our annual Juice Jam, where bands and artists come to perform outdoors all day long. This year we had Girl Talk, Jack's Mannequin, and The Cool Kids come to our school. It was a blast! Since I am a big fan of Jack's Mannequin, I bought my ticket at the student center right away. By the way, it only costs $10 to see 3 bands live. I love Juice Jam. Girl Talk's performance was literally an outdoor club with house music and sunlight. It's good to take a break from the workload and dance my worries away for couple of hours.


Enough about Juice Jam.

What I really want to talk about is our next visiting artist.
JOHN LEGEND IS COMING TO SYRACUSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
I'm not going to lie-- I've been having a very busy week because of all of my assignments but this news made up for all of my stress. I have more work then ever but my anticipation to see John is keeping me stress free :)

John Legend was in NYC this summer and his tickets were being sold for hundreds of dollars for crumby seats. John Legend is performing at one of our student auditoriums where even the worst seats aren't too bad. ANDDDD.... ANDDDDD the tickets were only $10. Where can you get a deal like that?

I think University Union does a great job with inviting a broad variety of artists to our school. In the past, we've had artists such as Kanye, Fergie, Billy Joel, Dashboard Confessional, The American Rejects and many more. It's even greater when tickets are very affordable to the students as well.

I can't stop looking at this photo.


Anyway, I think I'm going to have to write my schedule by the hour again. I must finish my work before the concert.

-g

BALANCE

I am back. And this time, I'll be here for the whole school year. Last semester I was too cool to study in Syracuse so I studied in Florence, ITALIAAAA (no offense to those who were still here). It's hard to explain the whole experience without talking about each day there but all I can say is that it was remarkable and everybody should go abroad. I guess instead of just walking you through the whole experience in one blog, I'll keep referring back to few of the many experiences I had there in the future blogs to come.

Let's talk about now. It's been 3 days since the semester started but I'm already loving my classes and my professors. In retrospect as a senior, I am starting to regret not taking all the various art electives I could have taken throughout my college career. Professors will advise you to take certain classes to help you with your talent and major. For example, my illustration professors always told me to take extra painting classes because it was one of my fortes. The whole painting thing got to my head so much that those were the only electives I was interested in. Even in the summer, I'd only take extra painting classes. I'm not blaming my professors. They were doing their job in helping me find my strong side. Maybe it was my ego telling me that I must only excel in one aspect of art. But at the same time, I can't regret it too much since all those painting classes have helped me broaden my perspective and technical and creative skills.

Florence helped me realize how much I enjoy sculpting and other 3D medias. I think I've always asked myself if I can incorporate sculpting into illustration where in reality, I should have been expressing illustration through all mediums. If something tickles your curiosity, well, let it tickle you. College is not just about "finding yourself" (whatever that means), but to try everything and then find out what you like and don't like. It's very simple really. I think we try to overanalyze our college career when really, we just need to go through all the trial and errors and learn from them. Alright, now I'm just lecturing myself and whomever is reading or will read this.

Oh, horrible news.

Marvel sold themselves to Disney. This is one of the biggest oxymorons in world history.
Thus, we will now be hearing, "Disney's Spider Man... Disney's X-men."

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What would you do for 4 billion dollars? Actually, don't answer that.

On the lighter note, check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXigfZGqsLM

The sky is the limit.

Have a great day ya'll.

-g